Adele in Sand Land: TOON Level 1

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$12.95

This book is about a little girl named Adele having grand adventures. She starts her adventure in a very crowded sandbox. From there, Adele falls into her imagination and meets many strange and interesting friends.

Adele fills up her sand pail, and when she dumps it out, a sand creature named Sandy is there. Her stuffed doll named Stuffy comes to life and plays with Sandy. Suddenly, a Sand Dragon surprises them by gobbling them up! But don’t worry, they are okay!

Throughout the rest of the story, there are fluffy chicks that tickle the ground, freezing ice at the top of the world, flying ice cream pops, and a hot dog tree.

Does Adele ever make it back home to the sand box and her mom?

In my opinion, the story was not particularly funny. It was confusing and did not make sense. It was a bit interesting simply because there were so many random things happening on every page. The pictures were well-drawn, but like the story, they also did not make much sense. Maybe someone with a more active imagination than me would enjoy the book more than I did.

This book is about a baby polar bear and mama polar bear. In the story, the mama tells the baby how she always takes care of her baby. This book makes me feel sweet and happy. The illustrations are soft and peaceful. There is a lot of white, black, and blue in the colors. There is a black sky in the nighttime with many, many, many stars. The pond is silver and shiny. While I read this book, I wanted to play with my toy polar bear. This book has words that rhyme like “you” and “too” or “down” and “frown.” The baby polar bear and the mama polar bear are smiling, hugging, and playing in the water. My favorite picture is when they are outside at night. I like the part that says, “When you share your hopes and wishes, I’ll keep them safe for you…and promise to do all I can to make those dreams come true.” It reminds me of bedtime when my mommy says, “You are my dream come true.” This mama polar bear will love her baby forever, and my mommy will love me forever. This book has peace. Little and big kids will like this book. I am a big kid, and I do like this book.

In Kenya, how you would talk to your dad would be, ‘Baba’; like ‘Papa’, very like Papa. When you bought milk, you would pay with a shilling. When friends came over you would go to a wildlife preserve to see animals like giraffes, lions, elephants, and all of those animals. Your favorite food would be beef roasted over a fire with fruit and vegetables and milk and even some pastries that are filled with meat and vegetables. Kenya is in Africa, and your favorite game might be Cricket. You would like to build toys, and most of them would be handmade. You would look forward to the celebration of Carnival. The last page shows all the different types of children all over the world, even American people. It is interesting to know what life would be like in Kenya. I think the part of living in Kenya that I would like best would be the Festival, because it is the funnest thing in Kenya. I would like the food, too.

The construction crew is back! The six dogs and sneaky cat have another job to do! This time they are tearing down an old building downtown with a wrecking ball. This was my favorite part! Then the bulldozers and dump truck get to work. The crew digs trenches, pours concrete, and welds steel to make a frame. They have an accident with glass and a bouncy ball truck! That page made me laugh! It was fun to watch them build this big tall building! Reading this book is so much fun because it has a lot of rhyming words. I really like looking at all of the pictures too! I always try to find that sneaky black cat! This is now one of my favorite books! I hope they continue to write more of these books!

Anybody Home? I love love love this book and mama possum. Mamma Polly is looking for a home for her babies. Its funny how she goes to all different kinds of animals and bugs in search for home and finds out about their unique homes. Out of all those home none is just right for her and her babies. I too enjoyed learning about all different kinds of animal homes like mole lives in burrow, beaver’s home is called lodge, bee have hives and most interesting squirrel’s nest is drey. I also was surprised to see how all animal uses different type of materials for their houses that are just right for them. It made me so happy when finally mama Polly found home just right for her babies, its surprise for you if you want to read this book. Most of all I had fun playing map games at the end of the book. Pictures in books are so bright and happy I couldn’t help myself from drawing some in my book and now my favorite activity is finding all kinds of animal homes around my house and when I go on hikes, so much more fun. Now I know who to find where. I love my house too like all animals it protects me from wind cold hot all kind of weather.

When I read the title I knew that this book would be about parrots in Puerto Rico. The book tells about how their number was getting smaller and smaller. I learned things like “In the 1950s, birds called pearly-eyed thrashers moved into the rainforest and tried to steal the parrots’ nesting holes.” The characters in this book are the parrots and the scientists who try to help and save them. Some of the parrots do get saved! Looking at some of the illustrations made me feel sorry for the parrots. The pictures are very bright and beautiful. The pictures are made like collages of different colored paper and fabric so I like looking at them. My favorite part of this book is when the scientists figured out how to save the parrots. “People had nearly caused the parrots to become extinct. Now people started to help the parrots stay alive.” I think that big kids would especially like this book Parrots Over Puerto Rico. This book has lots and lots of good and interesting facts about…parrots!